Accessibility Compliance in Higher Education
By Eric Grzymkowski.
“…In January 2017, the federal government adopted Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) Levels of A and AA standards for
all its websites. This sets a precedent going forward that will likely
be adopted by the Department of Justice. In short, if your higher
education site conforms to WCAG 2.0 best practices, it’s very likely
you’ll be in the clear…”https://www.oho.com/blog/accessibility-compliance-higher-education

Accessibility Focus: 5 Common Mistakes You Should Avoid
By Julia Currie.
“…Julia, one of our Accessibility Specialists, takes a look at five
common accessibility mistakes we see here at Zoonou. Hopefully
identifying them here will help you to avoid them in the future…”http://www.zoonou.com/blog/accessibility-focus-common-mistakes

An Introduction to Audio Description in Higher Education Video Content
By Penn State.
“This document summarizes information gathered by a research team at
Penn State. The team investigated various services and techniques
related to audio description for the vision impaired.”http://accessibility.psu.edu/video/audiodescription/adwhitepaper/

Let’s Define Exactly What Atomic CSS is
By John Polacek.
“As Atomic CSS (also known as Functional CSS) has been gaining in
popularity, some confusion has occurred about similar related terms.
The goal of this article is to clarify this terminology…”https://css-tricks.com/lets-define-exactly-atomic-css/

Reproduction of Color Images for Monochromats and Dichromats (PDF)
By Karl Rasche, Robert Geist, and James Westall.
“Authors producing documents with color images for any venue
must account for the possibility that the color images might be
reduced to gray scale before they are viewed.”https://people.cs.clemson.edu/%7Egeist/recent_papers/g3geis.pdf

+04: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Write Better Qualitative Usability Tasks: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid
By Amy Schade.
“Writing good tasks for a usability study is an art, not a science,
but there are still rules. Examine your tasks for these 10 common
task-writing mistakes.”https://www.nngroup.com/articles/better-usability-tasks/

Jeremy Keith at Render 2017 – YouTube
By Jeremy Keith.
“Here’s the opening keynote I gave at the Render Conference in Oxford.
The talk is called Evaluating Technology…”https://adactio.com/links/12140

+09: NAVIGATION.

The Links vs. Buttons Showdown (Sides)
By Marcy Sutton.
“Tonight! In a battle as old as the Internet, we’ll pit two HTML
elements against each other in a crusade of better and worse, right
and possibly wrong. One element is triggered with the Space bar; the
other, with the Enter key. Who will win in this all-out free-for-all
between LINKS vs BUTTONS?”https://speakerdeck.com/marcysutton/the-links-vs-buttons-showdown

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